| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." »Kenneth Kaunda |
| "Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme" »Maitri Upanishads |
| "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." »Miguel Cerbantes |
| "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." »Colette |
| "If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa |
| "oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." »Bill Tammeus |
| "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil" »Golda Meir |
| "We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey." »Albert E. Cliffe |
| "He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses." »Siddha Nagarjuna |
| "The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football." »Mark White |
| "You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha |
| "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." »Washington Irving |
| "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda |
| "They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach." »Luigi Barzini |
| "In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in Hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed" »Ron Garner |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| "Ricky Excuse me honey, umm, where the drinks are concerned, is that a hidden tax Does that fall under complementary up front service as well or is that something you pay for Flight Attendent Oh no, no, they're complementary. Would you care for another one Ricky They're complementary Flight Attendent Yes. Ricky You bet your ass I would." »Made |
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